"You two start getting busy, I'm going to sleep."
Chen Ning, who had been busy all night, yawned and lay down on the ground.
He glanced ahead and saw that a new Arrow Tower had been built.
It seemed a battle had taken place during the night, as several wooden walls had been knocked down. Fortunately, with the abundance of Skeleton Wolves and the Level 10 Elite Human Skeleton Warriors, they had managed to get through it with only minor scares.
"I'll keep chopping trees."
Ye Qian, accompanied by a few skeletons, walked over to a tree more than 40 meters away and began swinging her axe.
As usual, it basically took a few swings to drop a copper coin.
Although it was a lot, it would take a long time to save up enough to buy decent items from the trading mall.
After working continuously for an hour, she had completely processed two trees into planks of wood.
And with that final swing, a new item dropped.
[Item: Ancient Summon Card (Gold, Rare)]
[Type: Consumable]
[Description: Randomly summon a warrior from a distant era of this world to become your subordinate. Initial Level LV1-10 (Random). The summoner's Charm influences the hero's initial Loyalty.]
"Oh, this."
Ye Qian picked up the black card on the ground in surprise.
"What good stuff dropped now?"
Lan Xinyu, accustomed to Ye Qian's luck, ran over excitedly.
Seeing the item card emitting a golden glow in her hand, she rubbed her eyes.
"Gold?"
"Yeah, a rare item that can summon an ancient hero." Ye Qian looked at the card excitedly. "So, should I use it now?"
"Use it, use it! It dropped for you anyway, and your Charm must be super high. Even I, a girl, find you super cute," Lan Xinyu said with a strange smile and nodded.
Ye Qian glanced at her strangely and, following the instructions, placed the card in her palm.
With a thought, Consume!
A beam of light shot up into the sky.
A few seconds later, the golden light landed in front of them and slowly formed... an egg.
"An egg?"
Upon seeing this, Ye Qian fell silent.
"What's going on?" Lan Xinyu beside her looked bewildered.
The egg was entirely black with a metallic sheen, and its appearance exuded an indescribable strangeness.
Its surface was covered in indecipherable text, and when one's gaze fell upon it, their eyes would feel a slight stinging sensation.
Fortunately, this stinging was bearable.
She glanced at the system interface.
[Item: Strange Egg (Gold)]
[Quality: Unknown]
[Description: A special egg that seems capable of hatching some strange creature.]
"So this is what I summoned?"
It felt a bit absurd.
She tentatively reached out and touched the surface of the black eggshell.
It was quite large, about 60 centimeters in height.
Her palm felt a slight chill upon contact.
Suddenly—
The egg trembled violently.
Gurgle~
Ye Qian instinctively took half a step back.
The eggshell then began to make creaking sounds, and with a few cracks and snaps, long, thin fissures appeared on its surface.
A few seconds later...
With a pop, a cute head with long black hair broke through the eggshell and suddenly emerged from within.
She blinked a couple of times, looking at Ye Qian with confusion.
"Uh, what?"
Seeing this, Ye Qian's expression became strange.
[Ancient Being: Amiya (Gold, Dragon)]
[LV: 1]
[Experience: 0/10]
[Loyalty: 60 (+28)]
[Stats: Strength 5.6, Constitution 5.2, Agility 6, Spirit 4.5, Intelligence 3.8, Resistance 2.5]
[Skills: Inherited Dragon Language (Gold), Dragon's Breath (Gold), Telepathic Transmission (Green)]
[Cancel Transformation: Return to main body's appearance (cub stage).]
[Description: The last dragon egg, buried at the end of the Desolate Abyss. After being summoned to the mortal world, it reawakened its lost soul and transformed into an ancient Great Dragon. She is the last dragon, but has not yet grown, so she can be referred to as 'she' for now.]
"A dragon? Damn... such high stats."
Ye Qian was dumbfounded.
Seeing this cute little creature blinking its eyes and looking at her curiously from inside the eggshell, her feelings became inexplicably complicated.
She had expected some hero or knight to hatch, but she never thought it would be a loli.
And this little loli seemed a bit cute.
Dumb and adorable, super beautiful.
After looking at her for a few seconds, the creature suddenly flapped a pair of black wings, wobbled out of the eggshell, and pounced onto Ye Qian, then frantically rubbed its face against her chest.
"Mom!" the little dragon loli said in a childish voice.
Ye Qian stumbled: "What the hell, Mom."
Calling her mom right away?
But she was too cute, wasn't she?
Ye Qian patted the little thing's head, her tough guy heart melting.
The dragon loli stuck out its tongue and licked her hand, leaving it sticky.
Ye Qian's forehead immediately developed dark lines.
Lan Xinyu beside her was stunned, and couldn't help but swallow. "So, so cute. But why does her voice sound buzzy?"
Ye Qian was slightly taken aback.
Indeed, not only did the little dragon's voice sound strange and uncomfortable, but just looking at her body gave one an urge to worship.
"Is this what they call a superior being?"
Ye Qian took a deep breath. She realized what was contained within that extreme discomfort... Pollution.
Yes, it not only carried a pressure that made one want to worship, but it also came with pollution.
Of course, this pollution was different from the text on the fragments she saw in the Dream World, but in essence, it was harmful.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that if she stayed with this little thing for too long, Ye Qian's own mind and body would suffer some problems.
"Ah—"
As she was thinking this, the dragon loli's wings suddenly flapped, and Ye Qian completely fell backward onto the ground.
"Good heavens, this strength."
In an indescribable mood, Ye Qian was pressed to the ground and had her face licked repeatedly.
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Unable to bear it any longer, Ye Qian picked her up and placed her aside.
It was obvious at a glance that this creature's strength was not weak; at least its base stats were exaggerated.
Initial level LV1, with built-in skills.
There was also a cancel transformation, which seemed to allow her to revert to her dragon form?
Base loyalty was 60, she didn't know if that was considered high, but due to Ye Qian's personal charm, an additional 28 was added, bringing the total to 88.
Seeing this, Ye Qian was basically satisfied.
Lan Xinyu beside her, drooling, reached out and patted the dragon loli's head with a chuckle.
"Roar~"
A small flame spewed from her mouth. The dragon loli let out a childish roar at her.
"Ah—"
Lan Xinyu stumbled back a few steps, clutching her dizzy head, and curled up on the ground: "My head hurts so much, sob, my head is full of all sorts of messy noises."
Ye Qian also felt a sharp dizziness from that roar. She realized that dealing with this dragon was not as easy as she had imagined.
"Idiot, don't just roar randomly." Ye Qian unceremoniously tapped the dragon loli's head.
"Wuu~~" The little dragon immediately clutched its head, tears welling up in its eyes.
Seeing Ye Qian go to help Lan Xinyu up, she blinked her eyes, seeming to understand something.
A few minutes later...
"How is it, feeling a bit better?"
"Mhm, mhm." Lan Xinyu nodded. "That was terrifying. Is that Dragon Might?"
"Probably." Ye Qian's mouth twitched.
The dragon's description used "It," what did that mean? Did she even need to ask? However, it hadn't grown yet, meaning it was still essentially a mortal creature.
"It's already this terrifying just after being born, this little thing."
Still, Ye Qian was very excited. This little Dragon loli was Gold Quality, and she was really cute. She just hoped she wouldn't randomly roar at their own people from now on.
Ye Qian could clearly feel that the sound the little dragon let out didn't belong to any known language, yet it directly entered her mind, making her understand its meaning immediately.
Without a doubt, this language was Dragon Language.
And this sound seemed to be understood through the Telepathic Transmission skill.
"But, by summoning this thing, does that count as an ancient hero? Or is my luck just outrageously good?"
She remembered that her initial talent was Gold. From what Chen Ning and the others said, Gold was rare but not absolutely so. With a very large base number of players, those with Gold talents weren't that uncommon.
So, Gold heroes might not be unique either?
To confirm, Ye Qian subconsciously opened the communication group and tried sending a question: "Hey everyone, are Ancient Summon Cards hard to get? Also, is the probability of summoning a high-level hero from a summon card high? Is it possible to recruit beings other than humans?"
[Q Fim: Ancient Summon Cards, huh? The drop rate is like, you might get one after two months of grinding monsters. Although each card is Gold, the heroes you actually recruit are basically White Quality. I heard the probability of Green is only 10%, Blue is 1%, and so on.]
[Q Fim: Of course, even within the same quality, there are differences. For example, if a Blue quality hero is super rare, its value might be comparable to Gold. As for alien races... the probability isn't low, since there are thousands of races. But you have to be careful with species that don't have good compatibility with humans, they can be quite troublesome.]
[Baladola: Everything you said before is useless. If you get one, you're lucky. Little sister with the cute avatar, why are you asking this? Did you get one?]
[Ruofei: Lucky my ass!!!]
[Likes Wife Wearing Green Hat: I can't go on, I can't go on. I was almost wiped out in a recent battle.]
[Black Hole Emperor: Isn't this the Miss who sells Purifying Meat? Do you still have any meat?]